Where Bridget Jones was dippy and cute, Rose Richardson is determined and independent. Created eight years ago, Fielding's first novel is for the woman who will not sit around waiting for her Prince Charming. Rosie has fallen in love with an unreliable TV presenter who belittles and humiliates her. Swept up into the celebrity lifestyle of cocktail parties, she begins to lose sight of who she is.

So Rosie elopes to Africa to administrate a refugee camp. When famine threatens the people she has come to love, Rosie returns to the celebrity lifestyle, exploiting the vacuous egocentricity of the famous to help the starving. But in doing so, she merges her old life with her new-found vocation and the results are funny and surprising.

Morwenna Banks plays Oliver like an ass, making it hard for the listener to understand the hold he has over Rosie. But the issues of children dying and parents grieving are read with real feeling. She holds the pace well, given Fielding's tendency for drawing out the agony - understandably so given her first-hand experience with Comic Relief. V good.